Moon Mirrored Indivisible.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matuk, Farid.

Series:

Phoenix Poets Series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (88 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.

Summary:

Multilayered lyric poems that resist systems of power and foster intimacy. A previously undocumented child of Syrian and Peruvian parents, an inheritor of lineages marked by colonial and gendered violence, and a survivor of childhood sexual assault, Farid Matuk approaches the musical capacities of verse not as mere excitation or decoration, but as forms that reclaim pleasure and presence. Entering the sonic constellations of Moon Mirrored Indivisible, the reader finds relief from nesting layers of containment that systems of power impose on our bodies and imaginations. In this hall of historical mirrors, fictions of identity are refracted, reflected, and multiplied into a vast field of possibilities. Matuk’s meditations on place and power offer experiments in self-understanding, moving through expansive conversations between a lyric “I” and others, including poets, the speaker’s partner, ancestors, and the reader, and creating spaces for strange intimacy. Each of the book’s four sections of poems builds on the other to ask how we might form a collective—a people—not founded in orthodoxies of originality but in the mutual work of mirroring one another.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Moon Mirrored Indivisible

I

II

III

IV

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES ON THE TEXT

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780226840017

0226840018

OCLC:

1503843912